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A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting the arts hard. Artists struggle to survive on poverty wages and audiences are getting priced out.

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A First Nations writer’s fellowship was withdrawn by Queensland’s government. What’s going on?

This week, Martu writer Karen Wyld had her A$15,000 blackwrite fellowship withdrawn – just hours before the (cancelled) ceremony at State Library of Queensland, where she was to receive it for a fiction manuscript on the Stolen Generations. The Queensland arts minister, John-Paul Langbroek, and premier David Crisafulli had directly…

The Conversation

Creative Australia chair to retire following Khaled Sabsabi biennale controversy

Robert Morgan is expected to be replaced by the First Nations playwright and creative director Wesley Enoch

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Creative Australia’s decisions should be peer reviewed and at arm’s length. Where did things go wrong?

For the past three weeks the arts have been dominated by a recent decision made by the board of Creative Australia. On February 7 it was announced Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino had been chosen as the artistic team to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026.

The Conversation

Vale Leon Paroissien: the first director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who shaped how Australians experience art

In 1975 when Gough Whitlam opened the Manet to Matisse exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which had come to Australia from the United States, he proudly proclaimed it was only possible as the Australian government had

The Conversation

Morning Mail: Coalition flies to Cop28, Westpac suffers major outage, UK nuclear site hacked

Customers lose access to accounts and cards after system update failure; conservative lobby groups fund trips by frontbenchers to Cop28

The Guardian - AU

Self-insemination artist ‘vindicated’ after settling legal case over withdrawn Australian government funding

Peak arts body Creative Australia agrees to extraordinary acknowledgment and six-figure payment in settlement with Casey Jenkins

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Tina Arena resigns from board of Australia Council for the Arts

The Australia Council for the Arts releases a statement saying the ARIA Hall of Fame inductee had stepped down from the government arts funding body "due to her work commitments".

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